Reading strategies checklist

A handy checklist for active reading strategies. Perfect for encouraging wider reading and to encourage students to reflect on their preferred methods of decoding a text.

The resource includes teacher guidance on how you can use the checklist, with suggestions such as:

• In starters or plenaries to prompt students in the self-assessment of their reading.
• To give pupils a focus when skim-reading and scanning texts and unseen extracts.
• To recap a text or reading from a previous lesson or homework.
• In guided reading groups when scrutinising a text in closer detail.

The checklist includes strategies for:

• inference and deduction
• responding to a text
• reflecting on a text.